Huerta de San Vicente — Attraction in Granada

A wonderful place overshadowed by the horrible staff. Receptionists were rude and knew very little English (which I don't usually mind when the staff seems willing to communicate). We went on a Wednesday that supposedly has free entry as displayed on their site but we were regardless made to pay. It was only my boyfriend and I through the tour, and the guide came a couple minutes early while me and my boyfriend were struggling to book our bus tickets online. We asked her very kindly to wait only a minute for us to confirm our bookings and then proceed with the tour as we had to leave right after for the airport. She was very rude to us, proceeded with the tour, was not willing to answer any questions, and the overall tour lasted 10' instead of the promised 30'. The moment she finished talking she showed us out and locked the door without letting us have a further look around, when visiting this house was one of our main reasons for visiting Granada. Overall, this is a wonderful place to visit, and humbling if you are fond of Lorca's work. Everything is well preserved and gives a true feel of the era he lived in. However, I cannot stress enough how horrible the staff was, and I truly wish they stop spoiling visitors' experiences with...

Visited on a Tuesday afternoon in mid-March 2025. I'll be honest, my husband and I visited Huerta de San Vicente because we had time to kill in Granada, before our train back to Madrid. It is not something we'd heard of in advance or knew much about. But the park was lovely and the tickets were relatively cheap.

The process was to buy a ticket from the gift shop desk and wait for the museum, aka, the house to be opened. There were 2 other couples, and then the museum curator.

The curator was incredibly gracious to repeat her spiel of each room in English after first running through it in Spanish. The house is stories and we went through maybe 5 rooms and it was an interesting slice of history, but probably more interesting if you knew of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca and the time period. But it was not a horrible way to spend less than an hour. There was a Picasso sketch, well-preserved furniture, and other...

La Casa-Museo está muy bien conservada por dentro y por fuera y rodeada de un jardín arbolado ahora dentro de la aglomeración granadina. El mobiliario se ha mantenido y me ha gustado el piano donde, según relató años más tarde la ama de llaves, Federico se escondía cuando sentía miedo. La cicerone es amable y de buena conversación y sus explicaciones son ilustrativas y sencillas. Produce mucha tristeza y enojo no sólo conocer el asesinato tras torturas de Federico García Lorca, sino que hoy en día, salvo ámbitos, instituciones y colectivos concretos, no haya una mayor difusión y buen empleo de su obra y sus hechos que han sido tan bien estudiados y transmitidos por investigadores como el hispanista irlandés Ian Gibson. García Lorca expresó poco antes de la rebelión de julio de 1936 que en la ciudad de Granada estaba "la peor burguesía de España" y ésta no olvidó el comentario. Quedémonos con que Federico García Lorca señalaba que "soy revolucionario porque no hay verdadero poeta que no sea revolucionario", que "creo que ser de Granada me inclina a la compresión de los perseguidos. Del gitano, del negro, del judío, del morisco que todos llevamos dentro", que encontró una felicidad inesperada mientras estuvo en Cuba y un éxito absoluto en Argentina, que junto a la compañía teatral "La Barraca" instruyó a campesinos hambrientos y despreciados a través de un teatro didáctico y adaptado a su contexto, que comprendió las numerosas capacidades del teatro para mostrar los problemas del ser humano y para la búsqueda de, al menos, una catarsis, que el "amor que no pudo ser" por Salvador Dalí es una historia emotiva y malograda fruto de prejuicios todavía presentes, que en Rafael Rodríguez Rapún sí pudo hallar un amor correspondido y que sus ocurrencias lúcidas e inteligentes y sus buenos sentimientos a hombres y animales fueron continuos desde que era un niño. "Recuérdalo tú y recuérdalo a otros" escribió su amigo y amante Luis Cernuda al rememorar en un poema...